Category: US & World

South Korean fire crews battled what the acting president said on Wednesday were some of the worst wildfires ever in the country. At least 18 people have died, according to the authorities, as strong winds and dry conditions helped fuel the fires. Two ancient Buddhist temples were among the more than 200 buildings damaged or […]

Palestinians protested in Gaza on Tuesday in a rare show of dissent against Hamas, with some chanting slogans critical of the armed group’s grip on the territory after more than year of devastating war with Israel. Videos verified by The New York Times showed groups of Gazans in the half-ruined streets in the northern town […]

Once called Thule Air Base, now known as Pituffik Space Base, this U.S.-operated installation in northwestern Greenland is one of the most strategically important military sites in the world — even if most Americans have never heard of it. “It is quite literally the outermost eye of American defense,” said Peter Ernstved Rasmussen, a Danish […]

The joke was nothing too unusual for political comedy. But in India, where there is little room anymore to make fun of politicians without drawing court cases or mob violence, all hell quickly broke loose. Just hours after video from a stand-up show in Mumbai was posted online Sunday, supporters of a state political leader […]

A lawyer for Columbia University said Tuesday that a demand from the Trump administration for dramatic changes in student discipline had merely sped up policies the university had already been planning to enforce. In a March 13 letter, the Trump administration said the university had failed to stop “antisemitic violence and harassment,” adding that policy […]

In years past, the move by senior members of President Trump’s administration to share defense secrets over the Signal messaging app would have represented a serious breach that would have likely prompted investigations by the F.B.I. and the Justice Department’s national security division. Yet so far, neither the attorney general, Pam Bondi, nor the F.B.I. […]

In this episode of “The Opinions,” the New York Times Opinion columnist David French breaks down the security concerns behind the Trump administration’s military discussions on the Signal app and the consequences such a security breach could have on American safety and military strategy. Below is a transcript of an episode of “The Opinions.” We […]

A number of frustrated House Democrats who said their party had a “weak and undefined brand” announced on Tuesday that they had formed a new group to dig out of their crisis, called the New Economic Patriots. The group is the brainchild of Representative Chris Deluzio, a 40-year-old freshman from a competitive district in Pennsylvania, […]

An appeals court ruled on Tuesday that the Trump administration must admit thousands of people granted refugee status before Jan. 20, but declined to stop President Trump from halting the admission of new refugees. The ruling, issued by a three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, often a reliably liberal […]

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